About a year later, towards the end of 1898, there was great excitement in the sleepy town of Huang-chow, Hupeh, when a well-dressed and refined-looking young ran, the situation too much for him. He therefore temporized by letting the stranger take up his abode in the best room at his yamen, while at the seme time he sent an urgent mes-sego reporting the matter to Chang Chih-tung, viceroy at Wuchang. But the viceroy himself was in no better position to take a decision; he had not "been "to "Peking for audience since Kuang Hsii had taken over the government and so did not know what he really looked like.
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